Department and the Clinton Foundation. A couple of very bad ones came out, and its called pay for play. And some of these were really, really bad and illegal. A lot to get to tonight. Lets begin with cnn correspondent jim acosta and brin. Jim, this is just days after the father of the orlando shooter was sitting behind Hillary Clinton. Who was sitting behind donald trump tonight . Reporter don, you said it. Theres never a shortage of jaw dropping moments. Donald trump was trying to call attention to the fact that the father of the Orlando Night Club shooter was at a Hillary Clinton event earlier this week. He was saying this as a disgraced former congressman was sitting behind him in the audience here at this rally in sunrise, florida. That was former congressman mark foley, who resigned nearly ten years ago in disgrace after it was learned he was sending sexually explicit texts to congressional pages. So here is that moment when donald trump was talking about the father of that Orland
Republican leaders will react to this news, and even before we get to day one we have got two years worth of material already lined up, and she has four years of history at the state department and its not good, but, again, the president elect does not plan to pursue this. That obviously is a big change from the middle of the campaign. Herald ford obviously in the debate, and he said if donald trump were president of the United States and Hillary Clinton would be in jail, and that was a quick applause and that line scared a lot of people, and we have not so much a quick turn, and now we have this breaking news, and he has absolutely no interest in his administration pursuing any of these investigations. With people deep concerns around the governing narrative, theres some of the concerns not to be as heightened, and this comment about Hillary Clinton and the affordable care, keeping parts of it, and and for these names to come forward, it suggests the only reason i bring up jamie is be
Let me clarify a couple things here. I never said he was anointedfy y god to be president of the United States. I do believe that people are called, all of us are, you are called for your job, i am called for my job. , that doesnt mean that he is the only one that can do it, doesnt mean any of that. It certainly doesnt mean that god is going to make that happen. O we have to all play our roles. So i appreciate what you said but its not exactly what it meant. Tucker i think i remember it pretty well. You said youd been praying for and with ted cruz and you had heard that you believed god had called him forward at this time. My question is really simple. Im not attacking you, im just wondering. Because he didnt win and trump did, did it shake your faith . No, none. I think that all of us are called by god. You knowth this. All of us are called by god to do certain things and sometimes those things mean just take ae stand. It doesnt mean that what you think is going to work out works out.
Let me clarify a couple things here. I never said he was anointed by god to be president of the United States. I do believe that people are called, all of us are, you are called for your job, i am called for my job. That doesnt mean that he is the only one that can do it, doesnt mean any of that. It certainly doesnt mean that god is going to make that happen. We have to all play our roles. So i appreciate what you said but its not exactly what it meant. Tucker i think i remember it pretty well. You said youd been praying for and with ted cruz and you had heard that you believed god had called him forward at this time. My question is really simple. Im not attacking you, im just wondering. Because he didnt win back and trumped did, did it shake your faith . No, none. I think that all of us are called by god. You know this. All of us are called by god to do certain things and sometimes those things mean just take a stand. It doesnt mean that what you think is going to work out works out.
Mark barnacle. Analyst and professor of Public Policy congressman harold ford, jr. Good morning. The Washington Bureau chief for the Associated Press julie pace and carol lee, a part of the nbc news team behind this mornings new reporting on what happened inside the president s meeting with top pentagon officials. Joe, we talked about this story in the campaign. That conversation was so it was so disturbing on so many levels. It was chilling and, of course, right after that, thats when you delivered your warning to the republicans first and to americans who would vote for him, saying if you vote for him, this was right i think during the Republican National convention or right after, at that time he was a candidate and a lot of people werent giving him a chance to win. But you still issued your warning and i can tell you the Foreign Policy expert i spoke with afterwards was rattled and the impression was, my god, the conclusion was, my god, could you ever imagine this guy getting his h